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I N Till-: ITBI.IC SCHOOLS.
TciU'liiliy; the I'tt'ects of Alcohol
l.'pou tin* VI ii in;% it System Popular
1 u.nornnco I Ie??-a riling this
Subject A Nurcotir Poison.
It ^ns a lot! step in advance
when at ops taken in many Stall's to
teach in the public schools the ef#
forts of alcohol and other narcotic
poisons upon t.ie n111< 1:111 system. Tim
amount of popular ignorance upon
this subjeet is frightful. While the
terrible results an- acknowledged
which follow tlio drinking of what
tiro known as "hard" drinks?distilled
liquors, such as whiskey, hrandy,
^in, etc. there is popular belief that
it is only from drinking them to excess,
and that in more moderate
quantifies they are comparatively
harmless; while the error is wellnioh
universal that "soft" drinks wine,
beer, ale, ete.?are not only
not injurious, but healthful and nourisliino.
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There never was a oreater error.
No matter what form of rum is used
whether the drink lie "I mr< I*' < >p "v.ift
whether it In.' wine, or fermented
cider, or beer the reason it is swallowed
i:- because of tlie exhilarating
effects which follow. These effects
are caused I?y the alcohol which they
contain. In cider and the various
wines, there are fruit acids, etc.,
which impart a taste which is agreeable
to some; but, all the saute, alcohol
is the active agent, and were it
removed entirely from these compounds,
no one would think of drinking
the nauseous slops that would
remain. Now, what is this alcohol,
w hose subtile influence cause alI spirituous,
vinous or malt liquors to bo
drank '1
Alcohol is a limpid, colorless liquid,
of hot taste, which can only be
obtained bv the fermentation of sugar
or some substance containing sng?r.
It is not produced in nature.
Neither the grape, the apple, nor any
. other fruit; neither rye, corn, barlev,
nor any oilier irrain, contains one
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atom of it. Hut when the fruit-cejis
of th" grape or the apple are crushed
and tin' the juice extracted, a
cal process, called, sets up, wh^-(, v
the suear in these juices is split up
into alcohol and carbonic acid, the
latter escaping as a jras. When
barley, or rye or corn is fermented,
tin; starch which tliey contain is first
turned, bv an anlogous process, into
sugar, and then alcohol is produced,
by a continuation of the process,
from t he sugar.
In its effects upon the human system
alcohol is a narcotic poison. It
is not a food in any respect. It is
indigestible. It can not be built into
bone or tissue. The orilv thing
the body ran do with alcohol is to
oet rid of it. It is largely thrown
off by the lungs, as any one can believe
who has come within smelling
distance of the drinker. It passes
through the skin, and works its way
to every part of the body, and a portion
of it passes to the brain, derantr
injr the action of that orj/an, and
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producing a species of insanity.
When the alcohol roaches tin* l?rain
of courso it is closely shut in, and, as
it can not pass rapidly through the
skull it is more likoly to remain in
the brain than in any other part of
the body, and here it does its most
deadly work.
The brain, when healthy, is so
soft that it. would not retain its shape
but for the skull. The sharpest knife
is required to cut it without mangliniflJPs
structure. It is necessary to
immerse the ortran in alcohol for
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some timn in ornrr to harden it, when
a earoful examination is essential. A
drunkard's brain presents a contrast.
J t Ts already hardened, pickled almost.
In the dissecting room it affords
rare pleasure to a medical student
to secure the dissected brain of
an old toper. A celebrated anatomist
said that ho could tell a drunkard's
brain in the dark, bv the son.so
of touch. A London physician reported
a case, m which he found, upon
making a post-mortem examination^
so strong a" odor of alcohc'ic
emanating from the brain that ho applied
a match to it, when it burst into
a flame. The quantity of alcohol
in the brain is sometimes so great
that it can bo collected by distillation
after death.
It must not he supposed that eTory
drunkard's brain is as hard as a tiw-h.
led one; l>ut it may ho fairly suppos.
ed that the hardening effect of alco
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h*l has 110 little influence in the proration
of defeneration of the brain,
, such as results in various forms of
progressive paralysis. Numerous
functional disorders of the brain are
also traced to the habitual use of alcoholic
liquors. Locomotor ataxia,
an almost hopeless malady, involving
the brain and spinal cord, is the
result of intemperance.
When alcohol is taken into the
stomach it is absorbed and goes unchanged
into the circulation. The
heart, irritated by its presence, beats
faster, and drives the blood more
quickly through the arteries. Every
excretory organ immediately s< ts to
work fo expol it from tho system.
^ Tho lungs and skin Imvo already
~ . been spoken of; and the liver and
, ' kidneys arc no less aotivoTy engaged
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it _*-.*11in?r rid of the infernal stulT.
The effect on tin* liver is to produce,
after consincranln time, an incurable
disease cirrhosis or. as it is commonly
known, Hiob nail liver,v from
the peculiar appearance of that orjran
after death. The kidneys arc weakened
and inflamed, and llriedit's disease.
an absolntelv incura!>le ailment,
always fatal, is a frequent result of
intemperance.
The above is tin* merest outline of
the oh\sicnl efforts of this pernicious
poison. It cannot he too deeply impressed
upon the minds of the rising
generation that, no matter what
cause may he alleged, nobody drinks
wine, or heor, or cider, or whisky, or
any other form of the rum, for any
real reason save that it contains alcohol;
that this subtle liquid is a poison,
and nothing but a poison; that,
like any other poison, its effects are
proportioned to the dose, and that a
small quantity taken daily will event
ually be as destructive as u larger
dose taken more frequently. /"/<</<>
Jihttfr.
Knell wf Hie I'loody Sliii-f.
Xkw \ oi:k, Nov. 7. TIk' campaign
in Ohio made liv (?ov. (ior<l??n
attracted a jniod deal of attention
hero, and it has boon talked about
much more since lie went home than
before, for the bitterness of the lie
publican papers lias increased as
election das has drawn near.
I interviewed ('apt. John ('. ('alj
houn to-dav, and he said: kkl think
that (iov. (iot don did i/reat <rood.
J Here in New York many men, even
some Republicans, have expressed
themselves as pleased that he went to
( )hio to make an end forever of sectional
feeling as a factor in polities.
The oftener representsttive Southern
men come North to speak the better
for the whole country, and the same
thine is true of Northern men aeine
j South. We live in a new era. Tin*
old war issues are dead. (Jen. (Jordon
is an ideal man to represent
id^fehern siu tine lit. As l.e sa d at
t'ineinnati lie beeum to preach recoi
: filiation before the smoke of batt
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11* \% 11 ir* ii ?* iiiunri.iir IIM'M
' of both sections who will rule in the
future." The lire the seutiiuents of
the ytandson of .lohn 'Calhoun.
Kx-Oov. 1 loudly, of Ohio, who is
now praetieiny law in this eity, talked
wdlinyly about (iov. Cordon's
! cninpaiyn. "Yes,'' said he, U1 am
j o 1 a(1 (iordon went t > Ohio. I wish
more Southern men would mi there.
The Ifopublieans of Ohio are a set of
cranks. Their onlv stock in trade is
the bloody-shirt and at this time in
the world's history! They think it
is the only way they can briny out
the vote. Comber has just two issues
protection and the bloody-1
shirt. Mural llalstead is worse olT
man mat. tor Mc does not believe in
protection. < )f course the Republicans
are liohtiner with nil their mioht
to control the Legislature, as a boom
i for Sherman. Rut the Sherman I
boom will "peter out." He will not
bo nominated for the Presidency
! next year. Itlaine will be if In? wisli!
es to be; if not, then Rhone's man
Allison will be. *1 have, myself,
been in the South and have heard
threat numbers of Southern men, and
none of them, with one sinole exception,
reirretted the loss < f slavery."
Gen. l?o<rer. A. I'rvor also was
found in a mood willing to talk, but
he did not think so well of the policy
I of (len. Gordon's ?M)ino to Ohio as
I ex-Governor I loudly and ('apt Calhoun.
Said he: "Although I think
Gen. Gordon the best of all Southerners
to produce a eood impression
in the North, still, as is shown by the
temper of the leading Republican
papers in ()hio, it seems unfortunate
that he went there. I am afraid that
it had a bad effect in stirring up partisan
feelino aoainst the South. This
fool I mi* i t-' of n* ' ' -
|? V im- i o f* t t V i i " t ; I l I I W I IK ? I 11 it ! I It in
I %i O ^
I in New \*ork or nnv of tlio Kastern
States."
A Muddled Minister.
A preacher who held forth in St.
I'aul during the early days in closing
lip his prayer one Sunday asked the
Lord: "To comfort the nflicted, heal
the sick and raise the devil." The
| congregation, was of course, greatly
discomposed, and even the old doncon
found it hard to keep a straight
face. Horrified by this lansns lin
: gum, the minister, in 11>f<, autirne,
made matters very much worn:-: by
: correcting himself in the words:
, l4< )h, Lord, we did not mean rai e
the devil, hut raise the dead.1' Tl;
organist, who was a sagacious man,
immediately took m the situation
and helped tho very much rattled parson
out by striking up on a hymn.
A gentleman who was very zeal
ous on the subject of horses, but not
according to knowledge, bought a
mare at an auction and rode her
home. "Well, Caesar," he said to
his saldo companion, "what do you
think of her? She cost mo $500."
j "Dunno master." "Yes; but what
, do you think?" "Well, master, it
i makes me t'ink of what the preacher
I said yesterday?something about his
i money is*, parted. 1 disremomber de ,
' fust part. i
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3 TO TCUK WOE!
COX WAY, s.
mothkhs or Famous mkn
A 1 >eseri pt ion of I lie ."Mothers o
.Some Men of World-wide
I'hiuie.
The mothers of famous men are al
ways interest ine studies. Concern
ino iim) 11 v ??1 those women the worh
knows much, but of the majority it i
ignorant. The mother of Loui
Atpissiz, tin- scientist was the wife o
a Swiss I Votestant elerevmsm, am
lived t<> st very old a?re. Louis wsi
her favorite son and she trained hin
with the greatest care. When, it
1 sr>7, l'rof Silliman, of Yale Col
leoe, visited lier lie found her sit fou
score si "tall, erect and dignified wo
man," with animated address am
Cultivated manners. When she wa:
sissured by her mtest that her son'
adopted country loved him and wsi
proud of him, her strong frame wsi:
agitated, her voice trembled will
emotion, ami the Uowine tears toh
the story of si mother's heart. Tin
dav tlisii I'rof. Silliman left she wsi Ik
ed n lono way in the rain to bi<
| liiin and his wife farewell. Present
in^j tliein with :i litie boiupiet of pan
sies, she litule tlietn t 11 Iter s??tl "lie
pensees were all for him." I'ensee it
j Kreneh tneans both pansv an?
I tlion?r|it. < >11 the fiftieth birthday o
Aoassiz the Siit urdav ( 'lub of Hostoi
eelebrated it with a dinner, ;tt whief
Longfellow, lloltnes and Lowel
read poems. In the poem of tin
former, allusion was made to the n:it
11 ra 1 mother ;is mournino* over tie
fiiet that the ereat mother, nature
had drawn her son from the liresidt
where she wished to keep him:
And tie- motle'i* at home savs "Hark?
For his voice I listen and yearn;
It is irrowin-r 1 ite and dark
And my boy does "j^y^tnrn."
Aoassi/'s head duriio
the readine of the' ' "Vml whet
the allusion to his n. fwir tnadi
his rudd\ face flushed with restrainet
j feelinjr, tears ^fathered in his eves
and as the hist line. w;i - uttered tin i
dropped slowl\ down h eheel: . otu
after .-tin it her.
I'lie mother of Alphotiso and Krn
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I'M I f.'IIIIH'l, l 11?" |- ICIH'II IKIVIMIM!-, WJl
I an intellectual woman. She was i
constant reader, and her childrei
' were earlv impressed with her stipe
riority over other mothers, ami wen
pre foundly oreaiful to her in aft"
: life for her careful training of tliei
'minds. The father was a rich sill
! weaver, and had only an ordinary
j mind. I ,oss of fortune soured him
i and he seeiued to have little infill
encc over his jriftod sons. I'ut tin
mother was their inspiration and do
j liijht.
The childhood of DicUens was s<
; shadowed by poverty and his senxi
j live and imaginative mind was si
n
; keenly alive to the position that it i
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hardly possible that he could dra\\
| an absolutely impartial picture of lib
[ parents. I lis mother had a keen up
preciation of the droll and of the pa
thetic, and likewise considerable dra
tnnuc latent. >iie was a comely lit
I tie woman, with handsome, briidi
1 eyes, and a jrenial, agreeable person
I'Voin her 1 Jickens nndonhtedlv in
herited his temperament and intel
! lectnal f^ifts. She possessed an ex
traordinarv sense of the ludicrous
, and her power of imitation was some
thino astonishing. Her porceptioi
was (juick and she unconsciously no
ted everything that came under hei
observation. In describing ridieu
r*>
Ions occurrences her tone and ?_p\s
lures would he undatable, while hei
manner was of the quaintest. Dick
ens declared that to her he owed hi:
first desire for know ledge ami tha
his earliest passion for reading was
awakened by his mother, who tauoh
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him not only the first -rudiment ol
Knjjdish, but also a little of Latin
Poverty saddened and darkened man}
years of her life, ami her chihlrei
were early compelled to leave liei
and earn their own 1 ivi11?f, l>ut thev
all honored and loved her as shu do
! served.
Hei^h Hunt thus writes of hi:
mother: "My mother had no aeeom
plisements but the two best of all i
love of nature and of books. I)r
Franklin offered to teaed her the on!
tar, but she was too bashful to bo
eoine his pupil. She regretted this
afterwaids, partly, no doul for hnv
ing so illustrious a master. Iler lirs
ehild, who died, was named aftei
him, I know not whether the antidote
is new, but I have heard that
when I >r. Fanklin invented the har
moniea lie concealed it from his wif?
till the instrument was lit to plav
and ther. woke her with it one niyld
when she took it for the music o
angels, * * * 11 it vino* !>eor
bom nino years later than tlio vimn^
est of tny brothers, I have no recollection
of my mother's earlier aspect
I ler eyes were always fine and hci
person ladylike; her hair also retain
id its color for a loiitf period; bill
her brown complexion lino exchange*
for a jaundiced one, which she re
tained through life; her cheeks were
n '
Sunken and her month drawn dowi
with sorrow at the corner. Site re
tained tlio energy of her character 01
^ront occasions, but her spirit in or
dinary affairs was weakened, and she
looked at the bustle and discord o
the present staty of society witl
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, rill RSDAV, NOV
frightened aversion. .Wvcr shall I
!V?r??-?*t her face, as it appeared to mo
f coming 111> tlio cloisters, with that
wcarv haiio of tho hcatl on one side
and that melancholy sniilo!
"()ne holiday in a severe winter,
as she was taking ine home, she was
petitioned for charity I?v a woman
j sick and ill-clothed. It was in lilackfriars
road, I think about midway.
My mother, with tears in her eyes,
' turned up a gateway or some other
I place, ami, lieckoninjr the woman to
follow, took oiT her llannel netticonf
s ami jravo it to Iut. It is supposed
1 that a cohl which ensued fixed the
1 rheumatism upon her for life. Actions
like this have doubtless been
1 often performed and do not of neeesj
sitv imply any oreat virtue in the
performer, but they do, if they are at
peace with the rest of the character.
s Saints have been made for charities
no greater." II "//nut's Ar^omj.
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J o Save 11 is Mother.
1
i? We have had a (.lermau baror?
- atnune us, Huron von Karlstine, who
1 has written a look about New York
and its inhabitants. One of his a nee
dotes is very oood and interesting:
r ()n Washington's birthday he was
i standing in a crowd on the corner of
I Fifth Avenue ami Fourteenth Street,
f waiting for the orand procession to
i arrive. '1*lie first drums wort; hoard
i in tin' distance, when a vounif man,
! in his shirt sleeves and hat less, pass
rd through 'ho assembled nmltitudo
and addiossed the jioliceman who
kept the people back.
' ( Mlirer,' ho exclaimed, "mv motli'
or is sick in a house near Sixth Avenue;
she has suddenly been taken
much worse, and the doctor says that
if the procession passes our house
1 lie noise will kill her/'
"(). I\., youno fellow,1* said the
' polieeinon, and left him to run up
1 the avenue, where tie stood twenty
I feet before the procession and screamed,
"Halt!" holding "p !| boht. rattan
cane v. it .i both hands.
The word was passed alono tlx)
line, and adjutant walloped forward,
bent over his horse's neck, ami e.xehaneed
a few words with the policeman.
Suddenly the command, 'forward
inarch!" heard, and the immense
body of men proceeded to the corner
I of fourteenth Street without any
music, except the lightest possible
I tapping of drums. Then came,
"Kioht wheel!" and nearly fifty thou'
sand men. whom immense crowds
wore* waitinir to see and Hirer, wheeled
upjl-'ourteenth Street to llroadwav,
land down Broadway they inarched
! without music until they were hoi
yond the distance at which tliev
inie-hl disturb the siek woman.
No one asked why an army of
well-drilled, admirably equipped men
and many of hatllo-scarred veterans,
I turned out of their path at the simj
pie rrqvest of a single policeman,
I armed with hut a little rattan cane.
it would have heen hut a trill.no
| matter for them to take (iothum; hut
. I no, the general in command, when
he received the you 110 man's thanks,
j reminded him that his very natural
request was addressed to lus oentleinen
and soldiers. And a gentleman,
j he he soldier or not, reveres the *a'
ered name of mother.
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Nicotine and tin* St oil inch
I suppose that the least harmful
: method of smokino is the use of a
i
j clean pipe with mild tobacco?a pipo
j that has not ahsorhed the nicotine.
The harm fulness of a pipe comes from
its havino ahsorhed a ^reat quantity
1 | of uictolinc, so that you are constantly
takino more or less of it into the
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? system. The ciear would come next
I 1 r)
| in favor. Of course, the stronger a
pipe, is the more nicotine there is in
it, and the more nicotine you have
1 the creator is the chance of iniurinir
P I f 1 r ? *' n
vour system. The chief constituents
of tolmcco smoke are water, carbonic
acid, carbonic oxide in a state of
gas and nicotine.
s When a man smokes too much the
" the excess produces redness and irri1
tation of the stomach, and the mem
brane secretes irregularly and does
not produce the due amount of gas"
trie, fluid. Hence, digestion is inter'
fered with. That is the first phase.
After a while the stomach oets into
' ' snch a condition that it tolerates this
state of existence, so that tisercin
I not the same nausea produced in :tn
1 old smoker that we find in a younger
' smoker.
Whether smoking1 is good for a
i man depends on his organization. I
y do not think that smoking is ever
f really honelicial for a nervous man.
i Then, again, much depends on how
much a man smokes, and when ho
smokes. There are certain men who,
. when they arc tired, wlion their nerv
(jus system lias boon on too grea. a
i strain, will smoke, one or two cigars
! .
L thev will become <piiot. The nervI
ous man should not sjnoke at all,
Phlegmatic persons would he least
> liable to be harmed. ? IP. M. Jiutlev.
i ]\1. />., in (ho h'/ntoh.
i, lie was a "jewel" when she mar
ried him; six months later ho was
> her "gem." When two years after,
f she explained that g. e. in. stood for
II "green-eyed monster."
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>,2C -A.2KT3D "TCTJK CC"
'EMKKU IT, 1887.
Til K SI I < >T<. I' N POLICY .
How it is Worked in tlio Iturul
1 > is I riots of Louisiana.
Ni:\v Ohi.kass, Nov. 8. A special
fr in I 'attcrsonvillc savs: This
towti was profoundly ouitM yesterday,
I manv of the negroes, who form a
majority of the population, havino
cleared out in the eonsequence of
tin* alVair of Saturday afternoon. < )f
that all'air everybody has a different
st. rv to toll. The follow injr aro tho
conclusions arrivod at after some
pains and earoful oonsidorat ion :
Trouble has been threatening in
this neighborhood for sonic time past.
The neoroes have been talkino freely
' of hurnino1 the town of Patterson*
ville. It is state<l that one who is
now a prisoner made a fell eonfession
to lion. 1 )on (.'aITrev '>f a plot
to burn the town, which was to have
been earned into efTeet on Saturday
nitrht I but the events of Sntnrdnv of
ternoon intervened. Mr. CalTrrey
went to Franklin on the afternoon
train, and lias not, therefore, l>een interviewed.
The shooting and wounding
of four white men on Pharr's
plantation on Friday decided the authorities
to iustit nte a seareh for arms
j in the town, and at the same time to
arrest several men who had made
themselves most conspicuous by the
loudness and feroeitvof their threats.
Troops were ouartered on a steamboat
lvino alongside William's saw
mill, about a mile from town. I Tom
there on Saturdav afternoon, between
I and -) o'clock, the Attakpas IJanjr;
ers. under command of ('aptain t'ado,
together with it posse of citi/ens,
| partly of this neighborhood and partj
ly from Franklin, moved on the town.
There sire several versions ? f what
afterward occurred. The correct
! story is ]?r<>bablv litis:
At the entrance to the town stand
two cottages the one on the rij/ht
occupied b\ a white man named llili|
bert, and that on the left by colored
I people. Mere, as the troops ap1
preached, they found a crowd of from
ott to 100 excited neproes assembled.
This crowd was ordered to disperse,
and some of the members of the mob
left, while others remained and assinned
a dcliant attitude. ()nc nee-ro
of notorious character threw his
I wind behind him, as if to draw a pis.
tol, and then, in a moment, the whole
I affair was over. A regular fusilado
was ? Mened epon the neoroes by the
SheiiIT s posse and four of them were
shot dead.
It is asserted by the militia-- and
| with considerable positiveness by
some of them that no militia man
lired a shot, and that all the killino1
was done by the Sheriff's posse. (Jantain
(.'ado seems to have had ere-at
difficulty in restrainine his men from
j liiine1, but he appears to have sueneeded.
JJesides the four negroes
killed, one was very severely wounded.
Two boys also are said to have
I been hit. The Sheriff withdrew as
soon as the firing bewail.
After the affray the troops marched
through the town, and many of
. flu ?i (un'onu i-ol i am 1 1 I "?
; Tilts number of shots tired is variously
estimated at. from 110 to 100, Imt
| tIks firing was by no means indiscrim,
inate.
The four men killed were all bad
characters. Their names were Wash
and l)olj?h Anderson, brothors; Lew
is Cooper, brother-in-law of the Andersons,
and Robert Wrenn, a ne^ro
saloon-keeper, who killed a man a
week ami within a few yards of the
place where he was shot.
The dead were buried yesterday
i by the troops. The town was e-uardcd
and patrolled bv cavalry and infantry
last, niolit. It was impossible
t:> move in any direction without being
challenged.
(iivin^ and Receiving.
Thorn is a meanness which will
j grovel low in the dust fer gain; and
j there is also a pride that will nob
heiid gracefully to receive a favor.
There are people who dread to be
under obligation, and cannot rest until
they think they have repaid it.
Vet isi? not one kindof selfishness that
withholds from a friend the pleasure
of giving? True generosity is freer
land broader than this; accepts in
gratitude what is offered in kindness,
j while it stands ever ready to bestow
i what is possible upon those who may
need'it. It is a great mistake to
think that kindness consists only in
giving. finite as often and as pleasingly
is it shown by receiving in a
glad and grateful manner the kind|
11ess otTered by others.
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Brain Boh or ol' Womankind.
1>... i . r f
j>ui ociurc wn can lorm ail (> | > 111 ion
as to the fitness of tlioir sex to
produce hnl; a do/en immortals in a
millennium we must first ask if historic
and social influencos liavo produced
a generation of womanly precursors,
and a jrroup of women of
talent, out of which the missing immortal
inioht have emerged. It. does
not quite settle the question to say,
what is no doubt true, that if woman
1 hail stronger brains they mi^ht have
produced both. The brains both of
i men and women exercise themselves
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habitually ujiou such stuff as tlio <mihturns
of their aim and race sot before
them.
All I >1II >r IM< >11'; linrt tli?? l.r.im
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power of 111 a11ki11< 1 has boon spent, or
w-1???1, in sinitmo tlf 1 Miilistiik's 11it?
and tliioli* an enormous part of tbo
brain power of womankind bus boon
spent, or wasted, in eaj >lino Samson.
Hut the victories of Samson pave tbo1
way for those of Saul, and tun victories
of Saul lay tbo foundations of
the throne of Solomon. Tim daughters
of I H'lilah found no dynasty,
tliouob tliev help to upset a jrood
many. In otner words, by following
the fashion which required toon to
fioht, the men on the winnino side
may drift into social and political re.
lations favorable to the growth of
civilization, while the primitive division
of labor, which confined woman
to the tent or homestead, cut
them off, as a class, from the educational
influences of power and free
association with powerful equals.
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j i i' mm i i n i i" .1 woman <?i oxceptiouul
eupaeity unci position iniirht
appear l?\ eluineo unione tin* rulers
of iiK'n, I>111 the opportunity would
!>e owinjf to her connection I?v hirth
or marriage with tlie privileged class,
and would make no opening for others
of her sex. A nn fi't nf/i ( 'rutin')/.
Tlio Woman unci the !*i11.
1 \vnii(l(?r what women did before
tlm little, treacherous, reckless, pointed,
sharp pin was invented. If a
man jroes to the opera with his collar
pinned on or some portion of his1
simple* attire fastened in that way lie
J spends that ni<dit in a irony. lie is
afraid it will come out and lie's alwavs
Ollttimr his lined im to th<?
back of his neck to see if it is all
liolit. Then ho strikes tho point,
; sum ami runs it, into his linger.
Then lie xavs " gently under
his breath ami turns to the opera i
aoain. lint a woman has the most j
perfect confidence in the little fastener
ami it really seems to be steadfast
and true to her. A woman will
i daily oo into a room with her whole
outfit haiiein r on the constancy of a
' pin end she'll never show the faint- I
I est sijjfn of anxiety. It's ureal virtue,
this confidence. She'll sit r.
whole eveninir with the sharp point
into the small of her back, and conj
\\ e and look happy. It is just
sue i expedience as this that makes a
woman so strone" in endurinir the)
trials of life. She bears so much i
discomfort for effect that she is able
to face all sorts of sulTerinir with'
I
fortitude. A man always carries aj
pill in the back of the lapel of his
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What doos ho carry it thoro for? 1
| don't know, hot a woman always
| asks for a pin some time and generally
jn'ts it away from him. Then
when he wants it himself suddenly |
: ho finds it jome and he is mad.
l*ri<le, Not Pot at ions.
Senator Thurmun was altogether j
I out of the u'av in supposing that
(ion. Ilonry It. Jackson ceased to hoi
minister to Mexico because of any j
lapses of a bibulous kind,. The trouble
was only in his arrogant and su- j
porsonsitive temperament, which has
kept him in hot water from his early j
manhood to the present day.
lie regarded the sending of Mr.
Sedowick as a special aocnt of the!
State department to Mexico, to ascertain
the facts in the (hitting case,
as a reflection upon himself, while,
in fact, it was simply obtaining information
which tins minister could
not have obtained himself without !
passine beyond the proper limits of
)iis diplomatic cilice. Had (icnoral ?
Jackson been directed to ascertain
all the filets, ho would, if sensible of |
Iiis own position, have caused thorn
I to In? sought for by n special agent,
i and this was what Seretarv Bayard
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provided for.
It can safely bo said then that it
was not too much "aguadiente" that
! caused (Jen Jackson's removal, but
rather constitutional sense of his own
importance, which has not yet been
concurred in by the peoplo who
have had tlx? hazard to be in communication
with him, whether in military
or civil life. and (\nn'irr.
I>uty in Life.
A man is put into this world to do
a certain share of the word's work; to i
stop a gap in the world's fencing; to
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iui 111 < v<m>, ihmyoit iiimuie, 111 mo
I world's machinery. By tlio defalca*
j tion of the humblest individual, soino
| of its movomiuits must lio thrown out
of gear. The duty is to I?o got
through, ATI el none of us may shirk
our share. Stink to your post like a
Roman soldier during the watches of
the night. Presently morning will
| come, when every phantom must
vanish into air, every mortal confront
that inevitable reality for which the
dream wo call a lifotsmo is hut a novitiate
and a school. W'/iyfc J/t/-1
! ri//c.
The length of a flash of lightning
is estimated to occasionally reach ton
miles Of course most Hashes are of
, very much smaller dimensions.
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Hl'ic-H-ln'UC.
< )no aero is enough especially if
it bo a teiulor corn.
Kvo was tli" lirst woman to turn
over a now loaf.
I lerbs corked in bottles will keep
tlioir stroiiL'th for voars
n ?
Tin* story of Kve clothing herself
with leuvos of figs was morelv a figr>
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Iter of speech.
Many talk the loudest against sin
when they are walking arm-in-arm
with Satan.
A great many men who start out
to reform the world leave themselves
o(T for the last job.
Despair and postponement are
cowardice and defeat. Men *.yere
born to succeed, not to fail.
A large number of yachts are advertised
for sale this season; but of
course that's what yachts are built
for.
In th<* matter of speed there is a
great similarity bcetweon a flash of
ujMiUMiinif ami :i I?11 <1 unrounded
^
gossip.
('anada boosts a t>rit?11 r 1OJ' year
old. Mo remembers having seen a
clean ollico towoll wlion lio was a
bov.
Tito ( ,'zar of Russia receives the
largest salary of any ruler on the
face of the earth, lie ought to. I'o
has the most dangerous job.
I lenrv George says there will be a
Labor candidate in the ne\t race for
the W hite Mouse, All of the candidates
will labor to g< t there.
The happiest lot for a man, as far
as birth is concerned, is that it should
bo such as to give him but little occasion
to thi* k much .about it.
"It's all very well," said the gravedigger,
"to advise a young man to
begin at the bottom and work up,
but in mv business it ain't practicable."
If you contemplate making a blind
man a birthday present, don't select
a pair of gold spectacles. Silver
ones will answer the same purpose.
"The pin," we are told, "has made *
its way into the highest walks of
life." <v>ueer. The pin has but one
point in its favor. But then it has
a level head and lots of brass.
Next to joining a Masonic lodge,
getting married is probably the most
important duty the ordinary man has
to perforin in a lifetime.
Building lots are always more
plentiful in places where no one
wants to build. In some of the new
boom towns tlieie is nothing but
building lots to be seen.
The average age of Europeans
girls when they marry, according to
a (ierinan statisticians, is t went v-si v
years, wliilo that <?f men is twentyeiolit
years.
"Von never know effect without
cause," said one disputant. '*Yes,"
said the other, triumphantly*, "1
have known a hen to scratch all clay
without itchincf a hit."
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It is with disease of the mind as
with diseases of the body; we are
half dead before wo understand our
disorder, and half cured whey we
do.
There are twenty thousand more
women than men in Washington.
Washington can't very well bo a
capital city f??r women who are mat
nmonially inclined.
There is a tendency in llio minds
of many men, when they are heavily
disappointed in the main purposes of
life, to feel that life itself is u vanity
()ne of the notes jotted down hv
Longfellow reads: "A j'reat part <>f
the happiness of life consists not in
lighting battles, but in avoiding
them. A masterly rotreat is in itself
a victory.
A man was so delighted with some
sponge cake that he ate at a hotel
that ho went to a drug store and
purchased a lot of sponges, taking
them to his home for his wife to
make sponge cake out of.
Sawdust and petroleum are being
used as fuel by V ermont manufacturers,
on account of the increased
cost of the transportation of coal
since the passage of the inter-State
Act.
The man who does not think as
you do is not always a fool. Of
course the chances are that ho isn't
ho wise as ho might be, but there
may be a little loophole of oscapo
fi ii? lii iii w/unoii liOr.i
Tho oldest Christian church is that
at Bethlehem, built in tho year A. B.
82/, by tho Empress Helena, mother
of Constantino tho Croat. It is
known as tho Church of tho N'ativit
y.
An optimist is a woman with
now spring suit. A pessimist is a f
woman without a now spring suit.
An optimist is a man with a baby,
one day old. A pessimist is a man
with a baby 1S8 nights old and teeth
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